Hate Crimes Statistics Bill

[MasterJedi]

Hate Crimes Statistics Bill


Section 1: Findings
1. The "Hate Crime Laws Abolition Bill" states in Clauses 4 that "[t]he Atlasian government shall keep track of the number of racially motivated crimes committed after the passage and implementation of this bill."
2. Clause 5 of said bill states that "[t]he Atlasian government shall keep track of the number of crimes committed because of the victim's sex or sexual orientation after the passage and implementation of this bill."
3. The bill was signed into law by President Siege40 on October 13, 2005.  Since taking effect on that date, the Atlasian government has not released these statistics collected regarding crimes that were committed based on the victim's race, sex, or sexual orientation.

Section 2: Requirement of Attorney General
1. The Attorney General shall be required, using the timetable given in Clause 2, to provide a report stating the number of crimes committed based on the victim's race, sex, or sexual orientation in the previous four months, including specific breakdowns by category of crime and region.
2. This report shall be delivered once every four months: on the third week of January, May, and September.
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Sponsor: Sen. MasterJedi

[MasterJedi]

Does the sponsor believe that this would be useful in preventing hate crime from occurring?

Ebowed is the one who wrote this, I just sponsored it for him. And I think it would be a good idea to see how many "hate crimes" have happened since we abolished them.

[MasterJedi]

Using what methods will the attorney general determine whether a crime happened because of the victim's race, sex, or sexual orientation?

Sections 4 and 5 of the "Hate Crime Statistics Bill" made the government track the crimes so he should get it from there. (I guess the GM?)

[MasterJedi]

Ok I have an amendment to fix this bill:

Section 2 shall be amended to read:

Section 2: Requirement of Game Moderator
1. The Game Moderator shall be required, using the timetable given in Clause 2, to provide a report stating the number of crimes committed based on the victim's race, sex, or sexual orientation in the previous four months, including specific breakdowns by category of crime and region.
2. This report shall be delivered once every four months: on the third week of January, May, and September.

[MasterJedi]

I hereby open up the vote on this amendment. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

Section 2 shall be amended to read:

Section 2: Requirement of Game Moderator
1. The Game Moderator shall be required, using the timetable given in Clause 2, to provide a report stating the number of crimes committed based on the victim's race, sex, or sexual orientation in the previous four months, including specific breakdowns by category of crime and region.
2. This report shall be delivered once every four months: on the third week of January, May, and September.

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[MasterJedi]

Come on people, vote Aye!

3 Aye (MasterJedi, Dave Hawk, EarlAW)
3 Nay (Peter Bell, CheeseWhiz, Gabu)
1 Abstain (Yates)

[MasterJedi]

This amendment has failed.

[MasterJedi]

I hereby open up the final vote on this bill. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

Section 1: Findings
1. The "Hate Crime Laws Abolition Bill" states in Clauses 4 that "[t]he Atlasian government shall keep track of the number of racially motivated crimes committed after the passage and implementation of this bill."
2. Clause 5 of said bill states that "[t]he Atlasian government shall keep track of the number of crimes committed because of the victim's sex or sexual orientation after the passage and implementation of this bill."
3. The bill was signed into law by President Siege40 on October 13, 2005.  Since taking effect on that date, the Atlasian government has not released these statistics collected regarding crimes that were committed based on the victim's race, sex, or sexual orientation.

Section 2: Requirement of Attorney General
1. The Attorney General shall be required, using the timetable given in Clause 2, to provide a report stating the number of crimes committed based on the victim's race, sex, or sexual orientation in the previous four months, including specific breakdowns by category of crime and region.
2. This report shall be delivered once every four months: on the third week of January, May, and September.

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[MasterJedi]

Vote Tally

5 Aye (MasterJedi, Dave Hawk, WMS, EarlAW, Bacon King)
3 Nay (Keystone Phil, Yates, Gabu)


Peter Bell and CheeseWhiz left to vote!

[MasterJedi]

And there you have it, it's a 5-5 tie! We await your vote Mr. Vice President Q.

[MasterJedi]

This bill has enough votes to fail. Senators now have 24 hours to change their votes.

[MasterJedi]

With 5 Aye, 6 Nays and 0 abstentions this bill has failed.

[MasterJedi]

With 5 Aye, 6 Nays and 0 abstentions this bill has failed.

I didn't know we had 11 Senators, Mr. President Pro Tempore.

Q had to break the tie.